Word: long
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britain's tabloid newspapers have long slavered over the lurid and the voyeuristic, whether it be gruesome photographs of air-crash victims on the pages of the People or bare-bosomed women on page 3 of the Sun. But in recent months, the newspapers' owners have discovered that the regular diet of sex, scandal and sensationalism has resulted in parliamentary dyspepsia and growing public outrage. With the threat of government press curbs looming, 20 of the country's leading newspapers last week signed a broad code of ethics, which includes the hiring of mediators, ostensibly to slap down editors...
After three grueling years of law school, Darren Walker stepped into a plum job: a position as an associate with the prestigious Wall Street firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. But what started out as a young lawyer's dream soon turned into a bleary round of long days and stressful nights. "I knew the end was near for me when I woke up on the floor of someone's office one morning and didn't know where I was," says Walker, 30. Having clean underwear and shirts delivered to the office by messenger too many times finally convinced him that...
Then there are those who take a long jump into more creative endeavors. After becoming a partner at one of Minnesota's largest firms, Greg Howard left law to become a cartoonist. His Sally Forth strip is syndicated in 300 papers nationwide. "My writing skills as a lawyer have been helpful in cartooning, but certainly I have to use a lot fewer words," says Howard, 45. "I used to get 50 pages for a brief. Now I get 50 words for a comic strip...
...your long career, you have been responsible for youth affairs and, as a member of the Politburo, for state security. Why did you not insist on reforms much earlier...
...speaks of confederation today, one must ask, On what basis? It would be necessary to have a common foreign policy, a common defense policy. I ask you, Do these conditions exist? We are prepared to leave the Warsaw Pact, if the Federal Republic is prepared to leave NATO. So long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible...